(Off-)White Christmas

It’s been a while since the last update, and in the meantime, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year have come and gone. And a great deal has happened at Warboys House.

We’d originally planned to visit the house for Thanksgiving. But although progress had been made, it was not enough for us to be able to stay there comfortably. By which I mean, there were no functioning bathrooms, nor a working kitchen sink. Everything takes longer than you, even when you think it’s going to take longer than you think. We decided to keep out of the way of the builders.

However, we were determined to spend Christmas in the house. And so it was that, only a few weeks later, we showed up to a snow-covered garden and an almost-but-not-quite-ready house. But this time, the bathrooms were functioning and the kitchen sink was working, and generally much progress had been made.

Between three and four inches of snow had fallen a couple of days earlier, and the back garden was carpeted in pristine white, with just a few animal tracks here and there. At the front of the house, a new addition had materialized – a fenced playpen for the whippet! We’ve added a solid fence to shield the side garden from the road, and within that there’s Barny’s enclosure. He was thrilled to be able to chase the ball all over, especially after two days’ car journey! But he was a little puzzled by the snow – something he has only seen once, for one day, in Atlanta.

I think he was trying to pick up the ball without get his snout in the snow – which proved rather hard to do!

The view at the back of the house, down to the pond and marsh. Even at this point, it was beginning to thaw.